Barrel-cleaning machine.



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J. B. PEGHT. 7 BARREL OLEANING MAOHINE.

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1,003,786. Patented Sept. 19,1911.

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'J. B. PEGHT.

BARREL CLEANING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3, 1910.

1,003,786. Patented Sept. 19,1911.

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ATTORNEY APPLIOATION FILED MAY 3, 1910.

J.'B. PEGHT.

- BARREL CLEANING MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 19, 1911.

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INVENTOR 3 ATTORNEY J. B. PEGHT.

BARREL CLEANING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3,1910.

Patented Sept. 19, 1911.

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ATTORNEY .To all it may contain:

UNIT D, STATES PATENT OFFICE- JOHN B. rncnr, on NEW Yonx, N. Y.

BARREIg-CLEANING ,MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patefit d S t. 19 1,911

- Application filed Ma a, 1910. senai'no. 559,082.

Be it known that I, JOHN B. PEoHT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Cleaning Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The barrelcleaning machine forming the subject of this invention comprises an internal rinsing device having a series of spraying nozzles carried by an endless conveyer, preferably consisting of chains carried by'suitable sprocket wheels, acon- I enter the bung-hole of a barrel and lift it from the bun -hole finder on to the conveyer. Each garrel suitably seated on the conveyor sets, by its weight, the valve mechanism of the valve of the nozzle extendin in its interior, and said valve is then openeri admitting water to the barrel during a portion of its transit, sufficiently long for the thorough'rinsing of the same; the valve is then closed and the barrel is carried farther by the conveyer until it is properly drained before being discharged from the other end of the conveyer.

In the accompanying drawings is represented an embodiment of the invention suitable for effectually carrying out the objects of the same, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine with some of. the parts in section, also showing the endless conveyer in sections for illustrative purposes on account of its length. Fi 2 illustrates on an enlarged scale, partly in longitudinal section, the bung-hole finder and the end of the endless conveyer. Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows the drive controlling mechanism of the bunghole finder. Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are detail views of the rinsing nozzles and the water supply and controlling means,

To supply or feed barrels automatically to function of the bung-hole finder.

the interior rinsing a paratus it is necessary to locate the bungoles in the. path of travel of the spraying nozzles; this is the The barrels may be placed on suitable skids or guide ways of ordinary construction, not shown in the drawings, so as to roll onto the bung-hole finder, which comprises four supporting rolls, two marked 51 secured to a shaft 52, the third one 53 on a shaft 54: and

about the same size as the rolls 51 and the other one 55 much smaller and carried by a short shaft 56, the arrangement being such that a space is left between the rolls 53 and 55 for the traveler or barrelcarrier and attached parts to properly perform their functions, as hereafter described. The shaft 52 with the. barrel supporting rolls 51 is automatically caused to rotate as soon as the barrel gets into proper position, by the barrel pressing the roller provided ends of the frame '57 fitted on the shaft 58 having bearin in the standard frame 59. A tappet extenslon 60 acts against the end of an arm 61 secured to a shaft 62 when a barrel by its weight depresses the rocker ends of the frame 57 against the action of a spring 63 and so causes a cam 64 on the shaft 62 to raise an arm 65 loosely supported by the shaft 52 and by an idler gear 66 on the arm 65 place the gear 67 secured to the shaft 52 in gear with a pinion 68 secured to' the shaft 18, thus causing the barrel to be rotated by the rolls 51, as shown at Fig. 2. On the shaft 58 is also placed a segmental shaped frame 69 which carries a curved bung-hole finding finger 70 arranged to bear againstthe central part of the barrel, andheld there by a spring 71, through the medium of the segmental gear teeth 72 on the frame 69 and the segmental pinion 73 on the shaft 7 4 in the frame 59 beneath the shaft 58 and the arm 75 also secured to the shaft 74, and to which the spring 71 is attached; When the cam 64 has raised the arm 65 by the action, of the tappet 60 on the arm 61 by the weight of the barrel on the frame 57 a spring actuated pawl 77 holds these parts in this position byengaging a tooth of the ratchet disk 78 secured to the shaft 62. With the bung-hole finder in the operative condition described, with the barrel rotating, it will be understood that when the bung-hole comes over the finding fin er 70 said finger is caused to enter the ole y the action of. the spring 71 and a projection 79 on the segmental frame 69 strikes the upper end of the pawl 77, causing it to release the ratchet 78, and the idler gear Wheel 66 to fall away from the pinion 68 and so'atsause the rotation of the rolls 51 andthe btifrel to cease see Figs. 1 and 4 said cam 64 being moved away from the arm 65 by a spring 76, shown at Fig. 3, attached to an arm secured to the shaft 62. Now when a barrel has been removed from the bung-hole finder the frame 57 is raised by its spring'63 and its tappet 60 is caused to snap past the end of the arm 61 and be in position to raise said arm and so start the barrel rotating gear when asucceeding barrel again depresses the frame 57, as

shown in Fig. 2. The next operation is the transference of the barrel to the traveler that carries the spraying nozzles which direct the rinsin water to the interior of the barrels, and w ich will be referred to after the barrel traveler or .conveyer and its attached dethe chains. Motion is imparted to the shaft 83 by the belt 87 acting on a pulley'88 secured to it, and this shaft 83 imparts motion to the shaft 18 by the belt 19 passing over the pulley 89 secured to the shaft 83 and the 'pulley 20 secured to the shaft 18.

To the chains 80 are connected at regu lar intervals transverse plates 90 which carry the nozzles 91 and the valve mechanism for supplying them withthe rinsing water. Each of the nozzles project upwardly from the transverse plate and has its upper end perforated and curved, as shown at Figs. 1, 2 and 7, and extends through a pusher plate 92, upheld by springs 93 surrounding rods 94 passing down through counterbored holes in the plate 90, and on the plate 90 are secured the barrel guiding and supporting curved bars95. Below the nozzle 91 in a recess formed at the under side of the plate 90 isfitted a face valve consisting of a fixed seat 96 and a rotating face disk 97 on the end of a stem 98, said face disk 97 being held against the fixed seat 96 by a spring resting on the screwed cover of the recess which is provided with a stufiing box 99 through which the stem 98 passes. The valve disk 97 is suitably 'rotated by means of a pinion 100 fitted to slide on the stem 98 but rotatably connected therewith by means of a spline, and said pinion is, by a collet 101, secured to the lower ends of therods 94 and fitted in a groove in the hiib of the pinion, under the influence of the springs 93, being upheld by them and pressed down bya barrel resting on the plate 92. Normally the valve is'shut off, as shown at Fig. 5, the opening in the rotating disk 97 being shown by dotted lines away from the opening in the seat 96, and the valve is opened just after a barrel is seated over the nozzle,,.by the pinion 100 coming in contact with a short rack 102 held by a standard 103. It remains open until the pinion strikes the short rack 104 held bya standard 105, and so located as to act'on the side of the pinion opposite to that on. which the rack 102 acted, thereby reversely rotating the valve and so closing it. There will be'several barrels being rinsed at one time, the

number carried by the chain traveler and the I duration of interlor rinsing being detenmined by the length of the traveler and the distance between the racks 102 and 104, fixed by the requirements and speed of the other devices of the machine. When no barrel is over a nozzle 91 then the pinion 100 is held by the springs 93 abovethe racks 102 and 104 so the valve remains unopcrated as its pinion 100 passes the racks, see Fig. 6,

but is pressed down in the path of the racks when a barrel rests on the plate 92. Fig. 9 diagrammatically illustrates the' relation'of the pinion 100 to the racks 102 and 104. The rack 102 is also shown in Fig. 6 below the pinion 100. Of course it will be understood that other simple equivalents may be used for the pinion and the two racks for imparting reverse movements to the Valve 97 as it is carried forward in one direction. Each plate has a passage 108 connecting the valve chamber to a T connection 109, with the exception of one of them which has a cross connection 110, the side passages of which are by pieces of rubber or flexible hose 111 connect-ed to the side passages of the cross-connections and T connections of adjacent valve devices, forming as a whole a continuous passage for the water, the crossconnect-ion 110 being by a slip-joint 112 connected to a water supply through the flexible pipe 113, whichhas suflicient slackness to maintain proper connection and keepthe continuous passages formed by the parts 109, 110 and 111 supplied with water, which flows to such of the nozzles 91'as are between the racks 102 and 104 and whichhave barrels over them, as before described. By reason ofthe necessityof showing the machine in broken or separated partsthe water pipe is not fully shown, but it will be readily understood how a continuous water conduit is provided by flexible hose connections between the T connections 109. The chain 'conveyer has suflicient length beyond the valve closing rack 104 for the barrels carried by it to properly drain before they are dropped from its. discharge end.

The barrels are transferred from thebung-hole finder to the rinsing apparatus by the nozzles entering the bung-holes whilethe barrels are successively held on the supporting rolls 51, 53 and 55. This is accomplished by the fact that the finger holds a barrel in such position that the bung-hole is in the path of travel of a nozzle 91 as it moves around the sprocket wheel 81, and the finger 70 is withdrawn from the bung-hole just before the nozzle reaches it by the action of a cam 114 secured to the shaft 83 and arranged to act on a roller at the end of a vvertical lever 115 pivoted-at its lower end 116. This lever is by a rod 117 connected to an arm 118 on the shaft 74, (see Fig. 1) so when the lever 115 is moved by the cam 114 the segmental pinion 73 also secured to shaft 74 causes the segmental arm 69 to rock and withdraw the finger 7 0 from the bung-hole. The nozzle 91, by reason of its curved end, freely enters the bung-hole and with the supporting bars 95 lifts the barrel on to the chain conveyer.

The barrel carrying plates 90 are so spaced on the chain conveyer and bear such relation to the cam 114, on the driven shaft 83, that the finger 70 of the bung-hole finder is automatically, by the action of said cam, moved out of the path of the nozzles 91 as each nozzle is about to enter the bung-hole of a barrel, it being understood that another barrel is placed on the bung-hole finder as soon as one has in this manner been removed therefrom, so that its bunghole will be suitably located for the entrance therein of a succeeding rinsing nozzle. It will be alsc understood that as the endless conveyer is continuously moving it would not be economically practicable to manually place the barrelsover the nozzles, to do so practically the conveyer would have to move at a low rate of speed or be intermittently moved thus greatly limitingthe output of the machine.

I claim 1. In a barrel cleaning machine, a barrel interior rinsing device consisting of an endless conveyer having at spaced intervals projecting spraying or rinsing nozzles, a water supplying device connected to all of the nozzles, a valve for each nozzle, and means adapted to open the valves in one location and close them in another location as they are carried forward by the conveyer.

2. In a barrel cleaning machine, a barrel interior rinsing device consisting of an end' less conveyer having at spaced intervals projecting spraying or rinsing nozzles, a water supplying device consisting of an endless pipe connected to all of the nozzles, and a supply pipe connected by a slip joint to the endless pipe, a valve for each nozzle, means normally inactive adapted to open the valves in one location and close them in another jecting spraying or rinsin location as they are carried forward by the conveyer, and means controlled by barrels placed over the nozzle to impart activity to thevalve controllin means.

3. In a barrelcleanmgmachine, a barrel interior rinsing device consisting of an endless conveyer having at spaced intervals projecting spraying or rinsing nozzles, a water supplying device connected to all of the nozzles, a ,valve for each nozzle, and means made active by barrels when the barrels are placed over the nozzles to cause the valves to open when carried by the conveyer to one location and to close when carried to another location.

4. In a barrel cleaning machine, a barrel I interior rinsing device consisting of an endless conveyer having at spaced intervals projecting spraying or rinsing nozzles, a water supplying device connected to all of the nozzles, a valve for each nozzle, means normally inactive adapted to open the valve in one location and close it in another location as it is carried forward by the conveyer and a pusher plate surrounding each nozzle adapted to be depressed by a barrel placed over the nozzle to impart activity to the valve controlling means.

, 5. In a barrel cleaning machine, a barrel interior rinsing device consisting of an endless conveyer having at spaced intervals pro-' jecting spraying or rinsing nozzles, a water supplying device consisting of an endless pipe connected to all of the nozzles, a supply pipe connected by a slip joint to the endlesspipe, a valve foreach nozzle, means normally inactive adapted to open the valve in one location and close it in another location as it is carried forward by the conveyer and a pusher plate surrounding each nozzle adapted to be depressed by a barrel placed over the nozzle to impart activity to the valve controlling means.

6. In a barrel cleaning machine, a barrel interior rinsing device consisting of an endless conveyer having at spaced intervals pronozzles', water supplying device connecte to all of the nozzles, a barrel bung-hole finder located at one end of the conveyer and comprising supporting rollers, means to rotate the rollers, a spring actuated finger held against the barrel and adapted to enter the bunghole when by the rolling of the barrel it comes over the finger, whereby the bunghole is held in osition for the entrance therein of a nozz e as it passes around the end of the conveyer, and means for withdrawing the finger from the bung-hole just .a

adapted to locate and hold a barrel withits.

bung-hole directly in the oiroular path of water through the nozzle into the barrel the nozzles at one end of the conveyer,. during-its transit on the conveyer. 19

- its bung-hole, moved directly from the bu'ngsubscribed my name;

whereby the barrel is, by a nozzle entering In testimony whereof, I have hereunto hole finder and carried forward by the con- I JOHN B. PECHT. veyer, means connectlng the conveyer and W1tnes ses: bung-hole finder to cause them towork in J G. MGKIBBIN,

unison and means fordirecting a stream of JAMES A. HUnso'N. 

